inner man
Example Sentences
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As a painter, she saw the part of the surface that revealed the inner man — the bourgeois fop within the fiery revolutionary.
From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2020
He was always affable but also very private and he never gave much away: those of us who worked with him were allowed to know little of the inner man.
From The Guardian • Dec. 12, 2010
Elliott described his friend’s “supreme talent for deception” but saw the inner man simply as “schizophrenic.”
From Washington Post
They wanted to constrain the inner man with his ungovernable impulses.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of course it is not a specific for all "upheavals of the inner man," but will I think meet more indications than any other known remedy of its class.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock
